The Best American essays 1986
By: edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick ; Robert Atwan, series editor
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780899194677; 9780899194745
Subjects: American essays
Table of contents: title: The follies of writer worship / Julian Barnes; title: Not-knowing / Donald Barthelme; title: Flight from Byzantium / Joseph Brodsky; title: Heatherdown : a late imperialist memoir / Alexander Cockburn; title: The passing of jazz's old guard : remembering Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Stitt / Gerald Early; title: Of accidental judgments and casual slaughters / Kai Erikson; title: When the cockroach stood by the mickle wood / Robert Fitzgerald; title: China still lifes / William Gass; title: Nasty little facts / Stephen Jay Gould; title: Dressed to thrill / Anne Hollander; title: Morality and foreign policy / George F. Kennan; title: On boxing / Joyce Carol Oates; title: The first day of school : Washington Square, 1946 / Cynthia Ozick; title: The body of Bach / Edward Rothstein; title: Visions of the Pacific / Frederick Turner; title: On Italo Calvino / Gore Vidal; title: Julia / John Wain.